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Hey Folks,
I thought I would start a new Fiddlebacks and Camping thread. I got a chance to go on a quick overnight with the family last weekend. We went to one of our favorite "local" spots in the Ventana Wilderness. I tried to keep the pic count down, but there is still quite a few. I hope to see others add their camping adventures to the thread.
Here is an overview of the landscape by where we like to make camp.
I was happy to see some of the smaller creeks still had a little water in them.
This aquatic garter snake was happy to still have some water too.
This western pond turtle was not so lucky. I found him/her at the bottom of a dry creek bed. I came over to check that area because I have found baby turtles there in the past this time of year. I was wondering if this one was waiting for some little ones to hatch and then hopefully lead them to the nearest water source.
It can get pretty hot during the day so the first thing I did was set up a little shelter from the sun for the family.
Deciding what kind of sharp objects to bring can be a real challenge. These were the chosen ones for the weekend.
Some of Bud's finest along with a Condor sheath for my machete as I haven't got a sheath for it yet. The chosen folder.
Around dinner time, I busted out the camp nessie to get to work on some hobo stew. The camp nessie is one of my most used fiddles and I hope to see a production model soon!!!
Here is my helper pushing his hobo stew into the fire. It is scary how easy I got the fire going with a fire steel and some dry grass.
I used the machete to collect some dead oak. It chops like a champ.
Someone is excited to eat some hobo stew.
It turned out perfect. My son had never had it and he asked if we could have it for every meal. He even ate some of the onions.
While dinner was cooking, I made some new char cloth.
It worked good.
We woke up the next morning to some frost.
I forgot to bring coffee filters, so I had to improvise. Luckily one of my socks had a giant hole in the heal. Normally I would have sewn it later, but this was a survival situation. It worked great and had a nice gamey taste.
We spend a lot of our camp time exploring and playing in the water, but sometimes I just want to kick back and play with my knives. I used my machete to rough out a blank for a spoon.
Ok, I brought some other sharp things to play with.
Then it was on to my favorite fiddleback to use, the beautiful and not produced enough, scandi arete. I love this knife.
Here is as far as I could get before the family made me go down to the river.
The river is nice and cool with plenty of swimming holes.
There were lots of newts to be found. I leave you with this little guy. Thanks for looking and happy camping!
I thought I would start a new Fiddlebacks and Camping thread. I got a chance to go on a quick overnight with the family last weekend. We went to one of our favorite "local" spots in the Ventana Wilderness. I tried to keep the pic count down, but there is still quite a few. I hope to see others add their camping adventures to the thread.
Here is an overview of the landscape by where we like to make camp.
I was happy to see some of the smaller creeks still had a little water in them.
This aquatic garter snake was happy to still have some water too.
This western pond turtle was not so lucky. I found him/her at the bottom of a dry creek bed. I came over to check that area because I have found baby turtles there in the past this time of year. I was wondering if this one was waiting for some little ones to hatch and then hopefully lead them to the nearest water source.
It can get pretty hot during the day so the first thing I did was set up a little shelter from the sun for the family.
Deciding what kind of sharp objects to bring can be a real challenge. These were the chosen ones for the weekend.
Some of Bud's finest along with a Condor sheath for my machete as I haven't got a sheath for it yet. The chosen folder.
Around dinner time, I busted out the camp nessie to get to work on some hobo stew. The camp nessie is one of my most used fiddles and I hope to see a production model soon!!!
Here is my helper pushing his hobo stew into the fire. It is scary how easy I got the fire going with a fire steel and some dry grass.
I used the machete to collect some dead oak. It chops like a champ.
Someone is excited to eat some hobo stew.
It turned out perfect. My son had never had it and he asked if we could have it for every meal. He even ate some of the onions.
While dinner was cooking, I made some new char cloth.
It worked good.
We woke up the next morning to some frost.
I forgot to bring coffee filters, so I had to improvise. Luckily one of my socks had a giant hole in the heal. Normally I would have sewn it later, but this was a survival situation. It worked great and had a nice gamey taste.
We spend a lot of our camp time exploring and playing in the water, but sometimes I just want to kick back and play with my knives. I used my machete to rough out a blank for a spoon.
Ok, I brought some other sharp things to play with.
Then it was on to my favorite fiddleback to use, the beautiful and not produced enough, scandi arete. I love this knife.
Here is as far as I could get before the family made me go down to the river.
The river is nice and cool with plenty of swimming holes.
There were lots of newts to be found. I leave you with this little guy. Thanks for looking and happy camping!
Really?? :barf: Maybe you saw Bear Grylls do that or something. 
